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Books on Portugal: Portuguese Language Phrasebooks

by Clara de Macedo Vitorino

(Lonely Planet Phrasebooks)

ISBN: 0864425899
332pp

With brief language and vocabulary sections devoted to most situations the casual Portugal traveller might encounter, the LP Portuguese Phrasebook is a handy edition to your luggage. There are set phrases for travellers of all descriptions: campers, clubbers, cyclists, the disabled, drinkers, gays, internet surfers, job-seekers, shoppers even vegetarians. There is also a football section of use to visitors to the Euro 2004 Championship - Campeonato da Europa - who can learn such gems as 'O árbitro estava comprado' ('The ref was bought') and less usefully 'Vamos sazer a onda' ('Let's do the Mexican wave').

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Portuguese Dictionary Phrasebook

by Lexus with Norma de Oliviera Tait

(Rough Guides Phrasebooks)

ISBN: 1858286441
272pp

Rough Guide's neatly designed and easily portable Dictionary Phrasebook opens which some very useful introductory grammar sections and then splits into the main English-Portuguese and the shorter Portuguese-English dictionary.
The English-Portuguese section features brief situational dialogues such as 'getting on a train' and 'having a film developed' as well as feature boxes with useful tourist and cultural information connected with particular words and phrases, which will be familiar to Rough Guide readers. The imitated pronounciation guide is well done and certainly helps, for this reviewer at least, with Portuguese's devilish pronounciation.

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